Re: [ubuntu-uk] Winner announcement: Team Leader / PoC 2009

2008-11-29 Thread Philip Wyett
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 00:10 +, Michael Wood wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that Dave Walker has won the > Ubuntu-UK Team Leader Elections. > > A massive thank you to: > > + Firstly Alan Pope who has steered the ubuntu-uk ship smoothly over the > last year or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Winner announcement: Team Leader / PoC 2009

2008-11-29 Thread Sean Miller
I believe that there was a voting irregularity in Bognor Regis... can we have a recount of the ballots from appropriate IPs please? ;-) lol! Only Joking! Congrats Dave!!! Sean ps. sorry, been watching too many US elections. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/list

[ubuntu-uk] Winner announcement: Team Leader / PoC 2009

2008-11-29 Thread Michael Wood
Hi Everyone, It gives me great pleasure to announce that Dave Walker has won the Ubuntu-UK Team Leader Elections. A massive thank you to: + Firstly Alan Pope who has steered the ubuntu-uk ship smoothly over the last year or so. + Philip Wyett for commiting to be a candidate in this election + St

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Steam & Linux

2008-11-29 Thread Rob Beard
Christopher Swift wrote: > Thanks for the response Paul however I can get Steam to work perfect > normally through Wine and such clients. The question/discussion was > more of what your views are on the possible Steam port and if you are > looking forward to it or not? :) > > On a side note, yea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Steam & Linux

2008-11-29 Thread Paul Sutton
Christopher Swift wrote: > Thanks for the response Paul however I can get Steam to work perfect > normally through Wine and such clients. The question/discussion was > more of what your views are on the possible Steam port and if you are > looking forward to it or not? :) > > On a side note, yea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Steam & Linux

2008-11-29 Thread Christopher Swift
Thanks for the response Paul however I can get Steam to work perfect normally through Wine and such clients. The question/discussion was more of what your views are on the possible Steam port and if you are looking forward to it or not? :) On a side note, yeah I've been away petition signing, ever

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Steam & Linux

2008-11-29 Thread Paul Sutton
Christopher Swift wrote: > Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is off-topic for Ubuntu-UK but it > relates to Ubuntu and I think it would be of some interest to you, > just as it was to myself. As fellow /.ers may have heard, the Windows > demo version of Left 4 Dead has some Linux binaries included

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First time user I still have a dual

2008-11-29 Thread Ciaran Mooney
Well I hope your inbox was full of useful advice! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Steam & Linux

2008-11-29 Thread Christopher Swift
Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is off-topic for Ubuntu-UK but it relates to Ubuntu and I think it would be of some interest to you, just as it was to myself. As fellow /.ers may have heard, the Windows demo version of Left 4 Dead has some Linux binaries included in the directory, most notably "stea

[ubuntu-uk] ssh dialogue box.

2008-11-29 Thread David Restall - System Administrator
Hi, if I have an ssh key with a passphrase, whenever I use that key, a dialogue box pops up. Why ? What's wrong with asking me from the term I'm using ? Who's idea of policy is this ? It's stupid and breaks the workflow up. Is there any way of disabling this behaviour - apart from setting up m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First time user I still have a dual

2008-11-29 Thread Kris Douglas
2008/11/29 Ciaran Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > The 3 different versions of Ubuntu are probably something like : > > Ubuntu > Ubuntu - Recovery Mode > Ubuntu - Memtest86+ > > These are all perfectly normal. Recovery mode is the equivalent of > Safe Mode on Windows, and memtest86+ is a diagn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First time user I still have a dual

2008-11-29 Thread Ciaran Mooney
Hi, The 3 different versions of Ubuntu are probably something like : Ubuntu Ubuntu - Recovery Mode Ubuntu - Memtest86+ These are all perfectly normal. Recovery mode is the equivalent of Safe Mode on Windows, and memtest86+ is a diagnostic bootup for testing your RAM. Just choose the default Ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Purchase of camera on the high street

2008-11-29 Thread Matt Jones
I thought all cameras were mass storage devices now? What was the one that didn't work? Mj On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:56 PM, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I bought a camera today from a high street shop. We looked first in > another shop but a particular model was not in stock. However Curry

[ubuntu-uk] Reminder: Important: Voting Opens For Team Leader

2008-11-29 Thread Alan Pope
2008/11/15 Michael Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Never mind the US elections, Never mind the by-and-local elections.. > This is the election you've all been waiting for ! > > Seriously though, *Voting opens* [0] at Midnight tonight *00:00 15/11/08 > GMT* (approx 40min time) for the position of Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Purchase of camera on the high street

2008-11-29 Thread Alan Pope
2008/11/29 alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was pleased that we could buy the camera we wanted. Also that the > shop began to get experience of live usb/cd ubuntu, and had seen an > example of spending power linked to ubuntu. I wonder if they would have reacted if someone - umm - more - (trying to

[ubuntu-uk] Purchase of camera on the high street

2008-11-29 Thread alan c
I bought a camera today from a high street shop. We looked first in another shop but a particular model was not in stock. However Currys Digital did have stock. I will never buy such things without first finding out if they can be used with Ubuntu. Last year in another (camera) shop this had re

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: First time user I still have a dual

2008-11-29 Thread Sean Miller
It's in /boot/grub There's a file menu.lst Just comment out whatever you don't want to be offered. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: First time user I still have a dual

2008-11-29 Thread piskie
At a guess I would say that you have Ubuntu Ubuntu (recovery mode) Ubuntu memtest perfectly normal - when you get a kernel update you'll get 2 more If that is not what you're seeing then can you give us a biot moredetail of what you're seeing Kris Douglas wrote: > -- Forwarded message

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: First time user I still have a dual

2008-11-29 Thread Kris Douglas
-- Forwarded message -- From: stepheno2le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/11/29 Subject: First time user I still have a dual To: Kris Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi folks Just trying out Ubuntu for the second time and putting in a bit more effort to try and use it as the OS of choi